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| A visit to the Aircraft Museum in Darwin. |
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| Well worth a visit. The main display is the B52 bomber, donated to the museum by the Americans after they flew their 40 odd other
B52s back to America. The donation was in recognition of Australia's role in the Alliance. This was the last one (minus some important bits!) There are helicopters, jets,
ultralights, etc. Only a smidgeon is shown in the photos here.
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| That B52 is really big. These small aircraft look like toys, by comparison.
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| Under the wings were various engines from various aircraft. Here is a genuine 12 cylinder radial!
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| You can see the outrigger wheel of the B52 suspended in mid air. That's normal. The wings are so long....
The tail of a Spitfire can be seen under the outer edge.
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| There's a guy crouching at the far end taking a picture, too.
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| This pic shows the inards of the wheel well. There's all sorts of electrics, hydraulics and wire pulleys!
It is huge. The pictures does not do it justice.
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| This pic shows the underside of one of the main wings with the flaps fully extended. You can see the rear exhaust of the Sabre
jet engine and the Gypsy Major and Tiger Moth engines.
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| The plaque says these are dummy bombs which were used to determine various bomb drop characteristics for the
different types of bombs used.
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| This pic shows the really big plane in a really long hanger. The engine nacelles are empty. There is a curved blade
from a wrecked engine below the nacelles, pointing upwards.
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| This pic shows some of the displays. Real fighter aircraft engine remains. Real war-time photos and information.
The was a glass walkthrough that showed typical uniforms and clothing worn from the time period. Real history on display.
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| This pic shows the stairway up to the the cockpit window. When you look inside, you can see that it would not have been all that comfortable
a ride! Pretty basic interior and not much comfort.
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| This pic shows the engine from the Sabre jet which was on the other side of the building. I missed taking photos of
the jet due to the musuem closing early that day! I could have spent another half hour taking more photos.
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| Most people would know what a Spitfire was, wouldn't they?
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| This pic shows another view of the "Grey Nurse".
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| You can never have too many pictures of Spitties. Here we can see genuine machine guns on display at floor level recovered from some wreckage.
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| This pic shows the reverse view of a previous photo. Well, sort of.
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| This plane was presented in different pieces. This allowed appreciation of what these aircraft were really like.
The round mass on the far right was the dual machine gun turret assembly, mounted on a stand, so you could stick you head in a get a feel of what it was like with
a machine gun on either side of you!
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| Self explanatory really.. Still, it does look big - because it is!
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